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  1. Qt
  2. QTBUG-42072

Windows: windeployqt reports "Unable to find the platform plugin." for `-release -force-debug-info` builds

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    • Bug
    • Resolution: Done
    • P4: Low
    • 5.4.0
    • 5.3.2, 5.4.0 Alpha, 5.4.0 Beta
    • None
    • Windows 8.1 x64 Pro, VS2013 Pro
    • 27ac4a48f94400b16c13e99e9a8aa1a64260502e (qttools/5.4, 30.10.2014, 5.4)

    Description

      windeployqt fails to deploy an application built against a version of Qt configured with `-release -force-debug-info`. It reports "Unable to find the platform plugin."

      Digging into the windeployqt code, I believe this is because the readPeExecutable function believes the binary is a debug binary and not a release binary. windeployqt correctly prints "application.exe 32 bit, release executable" so it is trying to do a deployment in release mode. However, when it goes to find the qwindows.dll platform plugin, and passes it into the findSharedLibraries function (https://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qttools/source/dac2cd7b261bd7e9b4af094ca53919fbc6da51c1:src/windeployqt/utils.cpp#L111), readPeExecutable is reporting that the binary is a debug binary, which doesn't match with the isDebugIn flag and therefore the function returns an empty result.

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              kleint Friedemann Kleint
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